RULES MADE BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT UNDER SEe. 49A O THE ADVOCATES ACT, 1961 RE:RIGHT OF PRACTISING

ADVOCATES TO TAKE UP LAW TEACHING

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE & COMPANY AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AFFAIRS

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by Sec. 49A of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), the Central Government here by makes the following rules, namely:­

1. Short title and commencement

(1) These rules may be called the Advocates (Right to take up Law Teaching)

Rules, 1979.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette: 2. Definitions

In these rules" Act" means the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961).

3. Right of practising advocates to take up law teaching

(1) Not with standing anything to the contrary contained in any rule made under the Act, an advocate may, while practising, take up teaching of law in any educational institution which is affiliated to a University within the meaning of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), so long as the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours in a day.

(2) When any advocate is employed in any such educational institution for the teaching of law, such employment, shall, if the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours, be deemed, for the purposes of the Act and the rules made there under, to be a part-time employment irrespective of the manner in which such employment is described or the remuneration receivable (whether by way of a fixed amount or on the basis of any time scale of payor in any other manner) by the adovcate for such employment.